Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...condition before examination, always tell relatives the case is very grave, assume that a fast pulse only means worry over your fee. Last week British physicians were chuckling over dozens of such memories, recalled in Call the Doctor, by Ernest S. Turner, a frequent Punch contributor whose previous social histories have deflated the egos of British reformers, admen and Blimps...
...that goes with it." Nebraska-born "Marty" Marty is also an associate editor of the nondenominational Christian Century, and in last week's issue he winds up a six-installment series on religion in America that, clotted though it is with the fashionable jargon of the social analysts, is a perceptive young man's view of what he seems to regard as grey-flannel faith...
Religion-in-General. In the U.S., says Marty, these are "post-Protestant times." The particularism that once typified American church life has given way to what he calls "religion-in-general." The social and technological environment of the 20th century has acted "as a sort of cosmic Slenderella to polish the edges and smooth the roughness of religious particularity." Puritanism once dominated the U.S. attitude to religion, but "God is now offered in packaged, post-Calvinist, highly marketable forms. He is expected to baptize what is 'expedient' for man, to concur with man's reason and will...
...Social Security. Although it is about bees, this is a human book. The sensitive might almost weep as Crompton tells how he has been obliged to silence diseased hives with Cyanogas, and heard the orchestral voice of his insect friends shut off "as if a hand had been placed over an echoing string." And he follows the worn old worker bee to her last rendezvous with social security. Her wings are torn; her last load of nectar is nothing much; she falls short of the hive. "Just at the time the youngsters at the hive are coming out for school...
...Club members were in the building during the blaze; most of the members were attending a Punch at the Club Khayyam in Boston. "News of the fire came as a complete surprise to us," Paul J. Keaney '59, Social Chairman, said early this morning...